Visual Arts

After breaking attendance records for opening night and receiving media support from NBC, the NY Times, NY Daily News, Ebony.com, rollingOut and more, eMerge: Danny Simmons & Artists on the Cusp will hold a special gallery talk

The gallery talk will include the panel, On the Cusp: Collecting
Art by eMerging Artists with some of the art world's most accomplished
advisors, gallery owners and curators includingformer head ofSotheby's worldwide VIP program,
Sotheby's Preferred, and the current founder/CEO ofAKArt-an art advisory
agency,Amy Kisch;owner and director ofCausey Contemporary
gallery,Tracy Causey-Jeffery; curator, art historian and arts
management specialist Debra Vanderburg-Spencerwhose
clients include The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Exhibitions
Manager), the Harlem Arts Alliance, William J. Clinton Foundation and the
Galleries at The Interchurch/Rockefeller Center.

Guests will have the opportunity to view the works of and interact
with the exhibition's artists--many of whom re-purpose everyday materials like
teabags, thumbtacks and buttons into fine art.

The Harlem Arts Alliance and Souleo Enterprises, LLC youth
members, CULTURE CRASHERS--along
with the debut of the time capsule project (created by Jeremiah Drake)--will
provide live music in the garden.